Penicillin

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Its birth, to today'sbreakthroughs Penicillin Let's Take a Deeper Look The man behind penicillin? Alexander Fleming What happened? working on a strain of bacteria, returned to find mold killing organisms, known as antibiosiscould not purify penicillin Post Effect a decade later, Oxford University attendees, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, purify penicillin Relation Then, Relation Now The drug was widely used in World War II and helped to lead to lower fatal casualty rates. Biography http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/penicillin-discoveredhttp://www.biography.com/people/alexander-fleming-9296894http://www.bridgemanart.com/Media%20library/Images/News%20and%20Features/EN-US/Artist%20and%20Collection%20Highlights/mar%2011/penicillin_411112.jpghttp://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/kitzmann_step/penicillin%20-%20the%20wonder%20drug.htm biologist attended Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster)a member of worldly medical and scientific societies in 1945, co-awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine

Fleming is known as a Scottish bacteriologist, and is best known for discovering penicillin. Ernst Chain Howard Florey On February 14, 1929 Penicillin is no longer prevention for infection, it's treatment to infection. Arman & Aqeel Mass production had soon taken place after. General Information penicillin is considered the first antibioticeffective at cleaning many body partstaken orally or can be injected Before Penicillin there was no effective treatmenthospitals were full How does penicillinstay at it's A Game? when bacteria divides, penicillin prevents a cell wall from forming